Elcad Now Talks Unicode

Elcad version 7.3.1 supports all UNICODE (16-bit) based character sets such as Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic

Elcad version 7.3.1 will be released from October 2005 on.

This version again represents an important evolutionary step in Elcad's 20-year history because for the first time it becomes possible to use fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman and others installed with the operating system independent of the well-known Elcad standard font.

Apart from the altered type face, most Windows fonts can display additional characters that exceed the traditional 8-bit character set.

This is very important for all internationally operating Elcad customers, especially those who furnish the Asian, Baltic or Russian language areas.

As of now the Elcad documentation can be created in these original languages.

Elcad version 7.3.1 supports all UNICODE (16-bit) based character sets such as Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic.

The fonts are specified as a function of the project.

"At the push of a button" the characters in the Elcad graphic are converted into the configured font.

Of course this also holds for projects created with older Elcad versions.

In addition to the tried and tested translate editing in Elcad, starting with version 7.3.1 it is also possible to directly access a multilingual file in any ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) compatible data format.

Customers that use companywide foreign-language programs of their own and store their foreign-language texts in a database or in the XLS format can now comfortably take the texts directly from this data source and integrate them into their documentation.

AnytimeThe demand from many users for a "visual" check of the translated texts has also been fulfilled.

The translate configuration - i.e the setting of the current data language - can be switched on the fly anywhere in the program and without altering the fundamental configuration as such.

Also in this respect Elcad will offer maximum ease of operation! The following example illustrates that AUCOTEC developers always pay attention to user benefits: Someone who switches over to Chinese (but does not know it) can separately specify that the display in the document structure is effected in a separately legible language.

This allows for "knowing what's what" throughout a documentation check.

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